Package-tie.



E. WRIGHT.

PACKAGE TIE-r APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10. 1916-- 1,s2%%,157. Paten tedOct. 23,1917.

ERNEST WRIGHT, OF ARCH CREEK, FLORIDA.

PACKAGE-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Oct. 23, 1917.

Application filed March 10, 1916. Serial No. 83,386.

This invention relates to tying devices and s more particularly to thattype employed in the tying of packages, bundles, sacks and the like, andis so constructed to make the same adaptable to hold the twine aroundthe packages and obviate the necessity of the tying of such twine; and afurther object is to provide a device of this character which will besimple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture and which may bereadily attached to or detached from a package.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in thenove features, details of construction and combination of parts whichwill hereinafter be more fully set forth, illustrated in theaccompanying drawing and pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 is a top plan illustrating the application of my improved tyingdevice;

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective of the tying device removed from thepackage;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section showing the application of the tyingdevice; and

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section showing the application of the tyingdevice.

Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawing, in which likecharacters of reference refer to corresponding parts in the severalviews, 5 designates the tying device which is preferably constructed ofa thin blank of sheet metal, embodying a body portion 6 of substantiallyrectangular configuration and formed with a longitudinally disposed slot7, the portion of the metal forming the slot 7 being struck up beyondthe plane of the body portion to form a resilient tongue member 8. Oneend of the body portion is provided with a keeper 9, said keeper beingbent upon the body portion and reposing in contact and upon the surfaceof the tongue member 8 whereas to provide a loop for preventing thedisplacement of the tying element 10 from said tying device 5. In otherwords, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, in the application of thistying device the tying member 10 is brought under the keeper 9 andthence around and over the curved longitudinal edge 11 of the bodyportion and thence over the outer transverse extent of the keeper 9, andthence in the V-shaped slot 13, formed in a transverse line with thecurved longitudinal edge 11 of the body portion, and the terminal of thestring is thence inserted in the obliquely arranged slot lt and therebyholding one of the ends of the tying member in assembled or tyingposition with relation to the package or bundle to be tied. ThisV-shaped slot 13 is formed by curving one of the longitudinal edges ofthe body member at the point of intersection of the tongue member 9therewith and the said slot is further formed by slightly flaring thesaid longitudinal edge of the body portion at a point into the keeper 9.The opposite end of the body portion 6 of the tying device, anddesignated by the character 15, is provided with a pair of notches 16and 17 each of which is arranged in diverging relation one to the otherand opening out through the opposite longitudinal edges of the bodyportion, and it will be apparent that the notch 16 is of a greater depththan is the notch 17 whereby the latter mentioned notch will accommodatethe insertion and holding of one of the terminals of the tying member,such terminal being indicated by the character 18.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, the advantages of construction and of the methodof operation of the invention will be readily apparent to those skilledin the art to which the invention relates, and

while I have described the principles of operation of the invention,together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodimentthereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is mere yillustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as arewithin the scope of the claim appended thereto.

I claim:

A device of the character set forth comprising a single blank of sheetmetal providing a body portion of substantially rectangularconfiguration, a resilient tongue struck up from the body portion anddisposed longitudinally thereof, a keeper having an obliquely arrangedslot opening out to one side of said tongue, said keeper being providedat one end of the body portion andreposing upon said tongue, the body 2n. l l i r H l r 1,3 5?-/. or Mr w o N portion at the point ofintersection of the t-herein, theoppositeend ofthe tying memkeepertherewith beingprovided with a .\lher being, permanently secured intying poshaped slot opening out at one si'd'e'thereo'f, sitio'n by" thepassing of the same around and formed by the curving of onelODgiLLKliTI; said keeper and through the V-shaped slot nal edge of thetongue and the flaring.ojLwfornied in the body portion thence disposed jlg l iQ g ;Qf ;g j b y.,;; theseid: -,W; .th 1mt e obliquely al'lflngtdQtQi Said 2% body portion at a pointrearwardly oi the v tonguesubstantially as and for the purpose formation of the tongue-thereWi-thbeing-- specified-. iix

provided ith a pair of oppositely disposed In testimony whereof I ai'hXmy signature notches opening out througl'i the opposite in presence oftwo Witnesses. longitudinal edges'of the body-portiom-one ERNESTWVBJGI-l'l.

of said'notches beingof greater depth'than I Witnesses: 11theotherofsaid notches to permit of the G; WVrTI IoMPso'N, 5 tyingmember being insertedand retained GrR'KnpCrI-n" i Copies of this 'patentvma'y 'be ohtai'ned for-five cents each, by addressing th'eflommissioner of -iPa'terits,

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